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Serving Georgia's 88 Southern Counties J Vol. 42, No. 26 SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1962 Published By The Catholic Laymen's Ass'n of Georgia 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year THIS VIEW shows part of the throng which gathered to welcome the Archbishop of Atlanta. ARCHBISHOP HALLINAN MAKES FORMAL VISIT ARCHBISHOP PAUL J. HALLINAN is welcomed by Bishop McDonough. (Carroll Burke Photo) U. S. Speeding Up Program For Resettlement Of Cuban Refugees MIAMI, Fla., (NC) - Health, Education and Welfare Secre tary Abraham Ribicoff said here the Government is speeding up its Cuban refugees resettlement program and called upon the mayors of the country to get more of these “heroic, proud, bewildered, wonderful people’’ to settle somewhere other than Miami. Addressing the annual Con ference of Mayors at a lunch eon session in the Hotel Fon- tainbleau here, Ribicoff said there are now approximately 70,000 Cuban refugees in the Miami area while 26,000 have been resettled in other parts of the nation. Ribicoff outlined a 10-point accelerated U.S. program for resettlement of the refugees, which provides the Federal Government will pay the cost of transportation from Miami to the place of resettlement, also will pay the cost back to Miami if it becomes possible for refugees to return to Cuba. He said the program assures communities if resettlement is unsuccessful the refugees will not become public charges. He also said the U. S. Employment Service will provide special employment service at refugee centers across the nation and that many kinds of training and counseling services will be pro vided for the refugees. Ribicoff said every effort will be made to make public housing available as needed for the re settlement of refugees. He said the refugees center here will be given larger quarters and taff additions will put greater emphasis on resettlement. “I have today approved a transition assistance allowance of one month’s additional pay ment of up to $100 a family for those receiving public as sistance in Miami who are will ing to go to other cities,’’ the Secretary said. Ribicoff saluted Catholic Re lief Services—National Catho lic Welfare Conference for its work among the Cuban refugees. He said: “At the front line of resettlement are four voluntary agencies, each of which has had many years of worldwide ex perience with refugees. Three of these are religious organiza- tions--Catholic Relief Ser vices, the Church World Ser vice, which is Protestant, and the United HIAS Services. The fourth is the nonsectarian In ternational R e s c u e Com mittee.’’ PRAY FOR OUR PRIESTLY DEAD REV. PATRICK CAFFERTY May 22, 1888 REV. HENRY SCHONHARDT May 24, 1954 REV. BRENDAN D. O’SULLIVAN May 26, 1913 REV. WM. QUINLAN June 3, 1933 Oh God, Who didst give to thy servants by their scaredotal office, a share in the priesthood of the Apostles, grant, ice im plore, that they may also be one of their company forever in heaven. Through Christ Our Cord. Amen SAVANNAH - The plaza in front of Savannah’s Cathedral of St. John the Baptist was the scene of colorful ceremonies last week, as the Most Reverend Paul J. Hallinan, Archbishop of Atlanta and spiritual head of the Atlanta Province made his first formal visit to Savannah, one of the Province’s suffragan Sees. The Archbishop arrived early Friday afternoon, and was met by the Most Reverend Thomas J. McDonough, Bishop of Sa vannah, and about forty priests of the Diocese and several re ligious orders. A public reception for the At lanta prelate was held at the Cathedral plaza, where Arch bishop Hallinan was presented with a Spiritual Bouquet from the Catholic school children of the city. Gray-and-white clad cadets from Benedictine Military school added both color and a festive note to the ceremonies by providing a program of band music. Filling the plaza were several thousand children from the nine parochial schools, clad in their school colors, and two Catholic high schools of the area, students from St. John Vianney Minor Seminary, Fourth Degree Knights of Co lumbus, Papal Knights and Hon - orees. Priests from Chatham and nearby counties, and some priests and prelates from as far away as Augusta, Macon and Brunswick preceded Bishop McDonough and Archbishop Hallinan in a procession from the Cathedral sanctuary to the main entrance where the At lanta Archbishop was presented with the spiritual bouquet. Monsignor T. James McNa mara, rector of the Cathedral welcomed both Archbishop Hallinan and Bishop McDonough and expressed regret that the large throng could not all be accomodated inside for the ceremony's closing, Benedic tion of the Most Blessed Sacra ment. After presentation of the spiritual bouquet Bishop Mc Donough officially welcomed the Atlanta Province head to Sa vannah, extended “our deepest' expressions of loyalty and de votion in the duties which you have assumed as the new Metro politan of the Province of At lanta.’’ “You come here, not as a stranger,’’ said Bishop Mc Donough, “but in reality as one who is well known for the many acts of benefaction accomplish ed for Mother Church.’’ Referring to Archbishop Hallinan’s transfer from Charleston, his former see, the Savannah Bishop declared that ‘The people of that Diocese and the good priests, even though they rejoiced in your promotion to the Metropolitan See of At lanta, felt a great loss when you left.” “ . . . In the name of all our priests, our religious and our laity, and the students of this city, I bid you a thousand wel comes to Savannah . . . Once more I assure you of our pray ers and our cooperation in the great work which you are des- MARRIAGES 3 :RETREAT SCHEDULE .... 4 BACKDROP 4 QUESTION BOX 4 60th K. OF C. CONVENTION 5 LATIN AMERICA .... 5 LEGION RATINGS ... 7 BOOK REVIEWS 7 Bishop Cites Danger Of Discriminatory School Aid ARCHBISHOP HALLINAN and Bishop McDonough look at Spiritual Bouquet presented by school children. To Archbishop’s . left is Rt. Rev. Msgr, T. James McNamara. (Carroll Burke Photo) Information, Education Program For Diocese SAVANNAH - * Discriminatory legislation which would ex tend financial aid to the public school segment of American education while withholding it from the non-public school seg ment is very likely to lead to inferior education in our Ca tholic ’ schools,” charged Bishop Thomas J. McDonough, of Sa vannah last week. He spoke at a Clergy Conference consider ing a Diocesan program of information and education con cerning Federal Aid to education, soon to be initiated in the Diocese of Savannah. “Not only the N.C.W.C. Ad ministrative Board, but in dividual Bishops have repeated ly declared that the necessity or non-necessity of Federal aid must be determined by eco nomic factors, and that the de sirability of such aid must be determined by the American people within the context of the historical relationships be tween the Federal government and the various State, Local, and Private institutions which have, in the past, been reci pients of aid from the national government,” he said. Referring to the public hear ings and Congressional debates tined to accomplish for the Church in the Southland. . . As we say in the deep South - come often and stay long.” Archbishop Hallinan re sponded by noting that “When I became a Bishop, about four years ago, Bishop McDonough was the very first Bishop I approached for advice.” He said he appreciated ‘ ‘this great turnout of priests, laity, and students.” The crowd, sweltering in ninety degree sun shine laughed when he quipped, ’ ‘One thing I can say with cer tainty - my reception has really been a warm one.” The affable and easy-man nered prelate also commended the Band of Benedictine Mili tary School which provided a musical program, and con gratulated the members of St. Vincent’s Academy Choral Group, which sang “Ecce Sa- cerdos Magnos”, traditional anthem for Episcopal cere monies. He congratulated Bishop Mc Donough on the establishment of St. John Vianney Minor Semi nary. Turning to the semi narians present, he said, “I’m sure the future of this diocese will be in very good hands.” The Cathedral, itself, one of the largest and most im pressive in the South was also an object of Archbishop Halli- nan’s praise. The reception ceremonies closed with Pontifical Bene diction of the Most Blessed Sa crament, with Archbishop Hallinan as celebrant and Bish op McDonough presiding in the Sanctuary. Officers for the reception and Benediction were: Rt. Rev. Msgr. Andrew J. McDonald, Master of Ceremonies; Rev. Raymond Bain S.M.A., and Rev. Felix Donnelly, Chaplains to Archbishop Hallinan; Rev. John Cuddy and Rev. Joseph Stranc, Chaplains to Bishop Mc Donough. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. John D. Toomey and the Very Rev: Bede Lightner O.S.B. served as Dea con and Subdeacon at Bene diction. The Rev. Kevin Boland was Deacon of Exposition. Also present in the Sanct uary during the Pontifical Cere monies were three Savannah Papal Knights, Mr. Daniel Shee han, Mr. John Brennan, and Mr. Hugh Grady. Among the Papal Honorees was Mrs. Loretta Flanagan. Archbishop Hallinan was feted by Bishop McDonough and the attending priests at a din ner at Savannah’s famous John nie Ganem Restaurant in the afternoon. He left later in the evening for Charleston, accompanied by Bishop McDonough, to ordain several young men to the Priesthood. Savannah Catholic School Head Says: Catholic Schools “Unknown Quantity” To General Public SAVANNAH - Addressing a Clergy Conference of the Sa vannah Diocese, the Rev. John J. Cuddy, Diocesan superinten dent of schools and vice-Rector of St. John Vianney Minor Semi nary declared that the “obvious answer” to the question “Why are so many groups so vehemently opposed to - and so many more people! so in different” to federal aid to children in non-public schools, is “that our schools must some how still be to the general public an unknown quantity.” He charged that “there exists a shockingly large number of men and women who question, often quite vocally, the value of a Catholic education.” \ There are families, he said, ‘ who at this moment refuse outright to send their children to Catholic schools or who have seized the slightest excuse to withdraw or threaten to with draw their children from our schools. ” How many more Catholics have we who continue to send their boys and girls to our schools only out of sheer obe dience instead of out of a firm conviction that their parish school is the best school for their children? He warned against question ing ‘ ‘the sincerity of all who attack our school system” and asked “if we have really done all we could have done to ac quaint them with our true nature and goals.” The Savannah educator called for a widespread program to acquaint the general public with the value of Catholic education. ‘ We must somehow - and quickly - make ourselves clear ly known in our communities if we are to be accepted fully as an integral part of Ameri can education, a part whose well-being is essential to the nation’s well-being. Until we are so accepted, we connot ex pect, much less demand, equal treatment or equivalent treat ment under the law.” Declaring that the priests of the Diocese must ‘ ‘instill in our laity a deep conviction that only Catholic schools can educate their children ade quately” Father Cuddy urg^d the assembled priests to “do all that is humanly possible to make our schools scho lastically the best in our com munities” and to ‘ make our people aware that the main reason the schools exist is Jesus Christ.” “Our schools,” he said, “provide those experiences which, with the assistance of divine grace, are best calcu lated to develop in the young the ideas, the attitudes, and the habits that are demanded for Christ-like living in our American democratic society.” He urges the clergy to utilize their Home and School Associa tions to disseminate ideas and information concerning Ca tholic schools, and called for “good rapport with your local^ communications media” which, he said, would be “truly effec tive instruments in acquainting the • general public with our schools.” He pointed out that the Ameri can Catholic school system em braces nearly 6,000,000 stu dents on all levels in abqut 14,000 schools and that * ‘this year in our Diocese alone pub lic schools would have had to raise about $2,250,000.00 in extra taxes” for the education alone of their 9,500 students. This figure does not include the funds which communities would have had to raise to Regarding Aid To Schools Greater Knowledge Of Legal Decisions Needed provide the additional class rooms and busses. He said Catholics must help non-Catholics to “see what goes on in our classrooms, that our students are learning all that they would learn in public schools plus what only Christian schools can teach them. “We must help them to see that our personal commitment to Christ demands that we edu cate our children in a truly Christian atmosphere, and that any financial pressure placed on us to make this demand of conscience impossible to an swer is a violation of our free dom of religion. ...“But most of all, we must help them realize...that the well being of our nation depends on the well-being of all our school children, not just the ones who attend religiously- neutral schools!” Calling “the awakened mem bers of our parishes” the most influential salesmen for Catho lic education, they can by their daily contacts--at work, in their clubs, in their neighborhoods-- create an exact and attractive public image of our schools. SAVANNAH - At a conference held last week in Savannah, priests of the Diocese heardthe Rt. Rev. Msgr. John D. Toomey, Diocesan Moderator of Lay Or ganizations urge a greater knowledge of legal decisions re garding government aid to schools. * We are still faced with an appaling ignorance of legal de cisions relating to this subject and with illogical reasoning on the part of man Catholics and non-Catholics alike on the con stitutionality of government as sistance in the field of non-pub lic education. Stating the “The Catholic Bishops of the United States have taken no stand on federal aid as such’ he said the Ameri can Hierarchy is “insisting only if federal aid is voted, it should be administered on a PRINCI PLE OF JUSTICE - the same aid to be given pupils in non public schools as to the public school pupils.” “Should such equal as sistance be denied,” he said, ‘then the children in non-pub lic schools would be the vic tims of discriminatory legis lation.” He said all educators are en gaged in “making better men for better times” and denied that non-public school pupils should be refused assistance in secu lar subjects if public school pupils receive such assistance. Monsignor Toomey framed the constitutional question of federal aid to church related schools this way: “May the Federal government, as part of the comprehensive program to promote educational ex cellence in the nation, provide secular educational benefits to the public in private non-profit schools, church related as well as undenominational?” The term “the public” in the text of the question refers to school children and their pa rents considered as members of the general public and not as (Continued on Page 8) on the Kennedy Adminis tration’s education aid pro gram, and the controversy over the exclusion of church-related schools from its provisions, Bishop McDonough declared, ‘ “Neither the Catholic Church nor its Hierarchy favors or op poses the concept of Federal aid. But I am certain that clergy and laity alike are opposed to ; any program which discrimi nates against Catholic children simply because their parents choose to exercise a consti tutionally guaranteed right to educate their children in non public schools. Opposition to the inclusion of religiously oriented schools stems mainly from three sources, according to Bishop McDonough - ‘ Sincere men who genuinely fear that such inclu sion would be a violation of the Frist Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; sincere, but unin formed people who do not un derstand either the nature of our schools or the reason for their existence; and finally, a com paratively small but vocal group of individuals and organizations who simply distrust the Catho lic Church and all its institu tions.” ‘ Of course, we can’t do much with those who just refuse to hear us,” he said, “and only the Supreme Court can decide on the constitutionality of any law. But an informed and de dicated laity can do a great deal to allay false suspicions and to correct misunderstandings about the nature and aims of Catholic education. And they can do much to correct erroneous information concerning the rights of parents and the rights of government in education.” He called for “a spirit of rededication to the cause of religious education on the part of our people. It is they who must tell the nation the in spiring story of Catholic edu cation in the United States. ‘ ‘If they are not deeply con vinced of the invaluable contri bution which Catholic education has made to our Nation- by giving to it citizens not only skilled in human knowledge, but dedicated to the love and service of God and fellow man, then they will never convince any one else that our schools are important, even vital to the Nation. “If they are not convinced that education in the things of God - what man must be lieve and how he must live- in order to save his immortal soul - is as much a ‘full time job’ as education in English, History, or Geometry, then-they will never convince anyone else that Catholic schools exist be cause of deep religious convic tion.” Outlining a Diocesan plan to give Catholics and the general public a better knowledge of Catholic schools, Bishop Mc Donough said, “All the resources of the Diocese must be geared to this task.” During the summer months a series of four sermons con cerning Catholic Schools and American education will be given in al Churches of the Diocese. Leaflets outlining the history of * Religion, Education and the Constitution” will be distributed. Parishes were urged to adopt the subject as study club material, and to plan “Open House” in all Catholic Schools.